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The crash of the Air France Concorde nonetheless proved to be the beginning of the end for the type. [42] Just before service resumed, the September 11 attacks took place, resulting in a marked drop in passenger numbers, and contributing to the eventual end of Concorde flights. [ 43 ]
On July 25, 2000 a Concorde supersonic jet operating as Air France Flight 4590 takes off from Charles de Gaulle Airport.A piece of metal from a McDonnell-Douglas DC-10 that fell onto the runway impales the Concorde's tire, which explodes.
Air France Musée de l'air et de l'espace, Le Bourget, France: 002 G-BSST: British Aircraft Corporation: Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton, England: 101 G-AXDN: British Aircraft Corporation: Imperial War Museum Duxford, England: 102 F-WTSA: Air France: Musée Delta, Paris, France: 201 F-WTSB: Air France: Aeroscopia, Toulouse, France: 202 G-BBDG ...
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Although not an Air France plane, the flight was the final segment of an Air France flight originating in Paris. 5 March 1999 Air France Cargo Asie Flight 6745 , an ex-UTA Boeing 747-2B3F (SCD) freighter (registration F-GPAN) carrying a revenue load of 66 tons of cargo from Paris Charles de Gaulle to Madras , (now Chennai ) India crash-landed ...
This crash also damaged Concorde's reputation and caused both British Airways and Air France to temporarily ground their fleets. [161] According to the official investigation conducted by the Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA), the crash was caused by a metallic strip that had fallen from a Continental Airlines DC-10 ...
In 2003, Lewis Whyld took an instantly classic photograph of the Concorde on its last flight, soaring over the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, United Kingdom.